Question about the 100 items limit

[jluftman (Jim Luftman)]

@d_vdlinden

If it is not they way I should use it, please explain to me the button “Collected” ?

How to build your collection

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[d_vdlinden (Danny)]

Yes, but adding that episode to collection, it is followed by the error that I am exceeding the collection with over 100 items. Keeping a complete collection requires you to be able to collect as many items as you want. With VIP you may be able to do so, but that’s not worth $60. With free it is not. Unless it’s an error and needs to be solved quickly, and make it able to collect as many episodes as you want. If I click the button for Collected for the whole season, each episode is individually added to the Collection. With 5 series of 2 Seasons with each 10 episodes, I will reach the maximum of my collection.
Again, also the watchlist, however you use it, is cabbed at 100 items, so it is impossible to follow more than a hundred series.

I do this all by hand on the website, I have no integration with Kodi, or any other app whatsoever.

The error after clicking the green button to Add to Collection

By pressing the green-button it wants to add 10 episodes to my collection, not just 1 season. Same if I do it ad show-level, which is not wanted, as some shows you cannot yet have collected completely.
So I cannot collect anything anymore… at least I can physically, but not register my collection.

[d_vdlinden (Danny)]

Still I can only add 100 items to the watchlist. I am aware of the progress, but the watchlist suits me better. I am willing to change the way this works, but still I’ll be facing the limit of 100 on my watchlist/or collected list → So useless now

[XLNC]

Can you explain how the Watchlist suits you better than the ‘Progress’ section for shows you’re already watching (at least 1 episode watched)?

It just seems like an awful waste of a persons time to add individual episodes of a show you’re already watching to the Watchlist so you can ‘plan’ to watch them later. The Up-next section of the dashboard and the Progress section does this all for you.

[d_vdlinden (Danny)]

I use it to have a full overview. The Watchlist is imported into SeriesGuide, to show me what series I am currently watching. Nonetheless I do see your point on this topic, and I am happy to adjust the way I work. But still facing the fact that the collection is cabbed at 100 items. Before that is solved, I will not put in the work to change the way I work.

[melony100]

The bottom row for most people, IMO, is that after the last change, free tier of Trakt is only intended for people who are willing to invest all their free time in researching and arguing which is the “correct” way to use the website, and work few days to “fix their previous mistakes of incorrect using”.

Luckily, there are many other competitors that allows for whatever use u like, without punishment, and that are much better with UI design in a way that the user don’t need to research anything, the UI itself makes sure all goes the correct way.

If you deigned something that many people are “mistaken” with the use of it, then you need to take a few basic design courses.

Unless you are the CEO, of course, then you only need to hire someone better that knows how to keep the users and not lose the Business over poorly designed, communicated, and customer supported decisions.

[Adaj]

@iliasbatman

@d_vdlinden

History is for those episodes you have seen/watched. Watchlist is for the episodes you are watching

Why are you saying it like it’s a fact? Just do a simple Google search, please. Watchlist is for stuff you plan to watch, and that is the case for Trakt, but also for Letterboxd, Seriesguide, TVtime, and literally all apps that have ever existed.

Watchlist (noun): a list of people or things to be monitored

You’re right, Trakt’s watchlist is designed as a to-do list of things to start watching, not things currently being watched.

However, the term isn’t as universal as your post might imply. When the police add someone to a watchlist, it doesn’t mean they plan to watch them in the future, it means they’re currently in the process of watching them. We shouldn’t be surprised that some Trakt users are using a similar interpretation.

After all, don’t you add movie sequels to the watchlist? What if you’re watching through a movie series with a dozen sequels? Each individual movie would remain in your watchlist until you’ve reached that point in the series. Trakt treats movies differently than TV episodes, but its users might not see the distinction.

Having unwatched TV episodes/seasons in a watchlist isn’t necessary in Trakt, but it is understandable.

[toine.vanweverwijk (Toine)]

Let’s see if they do anything with Feature requests.
I have just created a feuture request to expand the limit of the watchlist.

Expand Watchlist limit for free users

As a long time user I think it would be a great enhancement if the Trakt team would expand the limit of the watchlist to at least 500 instead of the current limit of 100. Like many other users I like to put all series and movies that are to be released in the future on my watchlist so I can get an automatic notification when said serie/movie is released. The same goes for series and movies that have already been released and I still want to watch. By having also the option to monitor all these…

I would suggest that everybody who is not happy with the latest changes in how the watchlist is limited upvotes that request. That way we have a clear indication of how many forum users are not happy about the limit change.

[iliasbatman (ilias)]

@Adaj

After all, don’t you add movie sequels to the watchlist? What if you’re watching through a movie series with a dozen sequels? Each individual movie would remain in your watchlist until you’ve reached that point in the series.

You’re missing the point. The user has a full watchlist because they are misunderstanding its purpose. I’m simply explaining how the watchlist actually works. Of course it’s a problem if someone (and I’m the first one) actually plans to watch more than 100 movies and series (which is very easy to reach).

[bobbycr (Bobby Morice)]

I have the same issue but with Collected, I use trakt to keep a back of everything I collected and watched on my Emby library and in some cases even restored the watched items when Emby had problems and had to rebuild.

I’ve been a trakt user for years but I never had the need for the VIP features so I never got it but today I’m deleting my account and leaving trakt as it is becoming useless unless you get VIP.

i really don’t like this strategy of forcing you to pay when VIP gave you extra features and you paid if you wanted them, I’ll be searching for alternatives now. is really sad for me cause I’ve used it for so many years.

thanks for ruining it.

[danielHQ]

Thanks everyone for the answers!